With so many toxic influences in our culture today, could the path to restoration be something as simple as sixty feet of hardwood? Scott makes a compelling case that it can. Striking news if you can spare the time! …And I’ll just go stand over there now.
Hey, speaking of fun, loud, pro-American, friendship-inducing activities: come join your fellow patriots and get on the team!
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This episode reminded me of the opening song to the TV series, “Cheers”.
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
and they’re always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name.
source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/cheerslyrics.html
Guys this was one of the best ones in a long time. Maybe I’m biased, but … my best friend and I (who live 130 miles apart) had been talking about just this a few months ago, and recently, it has hit me again that I haven’t done much about it.
Trying to do more with the very few local friends we have, and by very few it pretty much boils down to the one couple, and our son and his family (two grandkids there). Other son lives 130 miles the other way. We get out there every 2 or 3 months to see them. But mostly, it’s us, in our house. Since COVID (and I think our response to COVID made it worse and gave us some Very Bad Habits) … it’s like I don’t have the motivation, and the longer you DON’T do it the harder it is to break the habit, get out there, and do something.
I’m not a particularly religious man these days, but it occurs to me that joining a Church and becoming a part of that community would probably do wonders.
Also need to get back out to Colorado and get some fresh mountain air — even then, though, I learned that it’s far more rewarding with people to share it with.
Life is all about the people in it.
Thanks for this one, guys. Great job.
To Scott’s last point near the end about loneliness, I read the other day that 300 million people globally have no friends, according to a recent survey. I would bet everything that the vast majority of those people live in the West.
IDK if it’s on your end, or Rumble’s, but for some reason this, and the following episode of Virtue Signal “Ego”, isn’t showing up on your “Bill Whittle: Conservative Opinion | Humor” channel. It does have a butt load more followers…9.05k, to be precise. Compared to 733, just sayin’…lol.
Exactly the same here. Nothing past the “WHO” episode of Right Angle and the “Divine Ingratitude” episode of Virtue Signal is appearing on Rumble.
I loved bowling as a kid and shlepped my kids out to bowl when they were younger but bowling alleys in Israel are few and far between… I remember going on a date to one in Tel Aviv a few decades ago…
I moved the 1st of the year to a relatively small town and they have just created a community pub … crowd sourced locally… haven’t gone yet… but I paid my dues… it’s nice to get to know the folks you live near…
I have often said … and I came to this conclusion after I’d been an adult for quite a while. I will also say that the older I get the more certain I am that it is true…
Life is all about the people. What are the most fond memories you have? Make a list of like 10 of them. Chances are, 80-90% of them involve doing things … with family and friends.
And if the vast majority of them don’t, I’d wager that … you’re probably not all that happy.
In the Franz Joseph drawings, the Enterprise has a bowling alley. Along the keel of the secondary hull.
I LOVED bowling, but I can’t do it anymore. My last two outings, I slipped and fell, and slid about 1/3 of the way down the alley. LOL I decided it was time for me to hang up my sneakers.
I moved from a big medical practice in a big medical conglomerate in the big city to a small town in the mountains of northeast Georgia. The first thing I did was join Rotary. My new community is home to a bunch of rich retired folks, may of whom ran big businesses and are used to accomplishment and success, who’ve joined in the past couple years as well. An energetic woman who runs a fitness club joined and is bringing in young females, something not normal in Rotary, where hearing aids outnumber patrons in most places. We’ve almost doubled in size since I joined and we are sponsoring a free dental clinic, assisting schoolchildren in affording meals, investigating mental illness assistance, and other community service. And we’re having parties.
Personally I am much more connected here than back in my home megalopolis. And I second the thought that the resurgence of Church attendance is predictable as well. But first, the churches need to read Eric Metaxas “Letter to the American Church” and put God, truth, and freedom first.
Let’s see, a place where people with a common interest gather on a regular basis and gradually develop a sense of community and trust. Sound familiar? It’s called CHURCH, which is why the left did their level best to shut them all down during the pandemic and isolate us more.
I used to 5-pin bowl. But that was over 20 years ago. It is still a fun place to go, just to get to know your neighbors. We have a new bowling alley open in just the past few years. They have both 5 pin and 10 pin alleys here.
This episode wasn’t on Rumble. So that is two shows, that for some reason didn’t get posted. But I got to see them finally, after I checked YT. I got the email notification, but the shows were not on Rumble.
These episodes are, indeed, on Rumble. Unfortunately, there are two different channels, and Bill has apparently been uploading to the much less traveled one, which has many fewer subscribers:
SO VERY IMPORTANT to have friends in your life, someone to talk to during those difficult times. Life is pretty easy when all is “going well”. Mental health guides most actions. Just look at those who commit the horrendous crimes, recent example-the Idaho murders! Yes, I know, innocent until.proven guilty, however, the young man being charged was a LONER! Look at the Ted Bundies, John Gacy, Richard Speck, etc…all LONERS! Keep building friends, and you will live longer! That, and sharing a beer more NOW than then, is the key!
Thank you Scott, Bill, and Steve,, and Zo…the more I watch BW.com, I seem to become a better person!
BE kind to our web footed friends, for a duck may be somebody’s brother(?)/mother(?).
Yeah, I remember Sing along with Mitch (Miller). Life was so much better then.
Dad joke from the ’60’s: What do you call a bee sting on a mosquito bite? Sting along with itch…
Did Scott Ott REALLY say “all the sudden” (20:03 or so) instead of “all of a sudden”? I’ve been noticing more and more that otherwise well-spoken people have been butchering this simple phrase. Please don’t do that! Please go back to using proper English!!
And I’m actually reading a page a day from Strunk & White. Oh, the shame!
Scott, I think, did a wonderful job conveying this very important topic. He also “spoke” for quite a while. Even the most well-spoken people often will leave out a word or “miss speak” if the topic is a long one. Sorry, but I think “butchering” is a bit “harsh”, Judie. Scott, Steve and Bill, I think, are the best at what they do because of their different “choices” of the content of their podcasts. They never stoop to the “Prince Harry” type of topics. My son tells me I only laugh out loud when I am listening to one of their podcasts!